wild | (adjective) in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated | Synonyms: untamed |
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(adjective) marked by extreme lack of restraint or control | - |
(adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, risky |
(adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, dotty, gaga |
(adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, waste |
(adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving, raving mad |
(adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: violent |
(adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized |
(adjective) in a state of extreme emotion | - |
(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous |
(adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: fantastic |
(adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted |
(adjective) deviating widely from an intended course | - |
(noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wilderness |
(noun) a wild primitive state untouched by civilization | Synonyms: natural state, state of nature |
(adverb) in a wild or undomesticated manner | - |
(adverb) in an uncontrolled and rampant manner | Synonyms: rampantly |
wildcat | (adjective) (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive | - |
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(adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorised, unauthorized |
(adjective) outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices | - |
(noun) any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | - |
(noun) an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | Synonyms: wildcat well |
(noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf |
wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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wildebeest | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: gnu |
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wilderness | (noun) a bewildering profusion | - |
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(noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wild |
(noun) (politics) a state of disfavor | - |
wildfire | (noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration | - |
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wildflower | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant | Synonyms: wild flower |
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wildfowl | (noun) flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food | - |
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wilding | (noun) an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women | - |
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(noun) a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) | - |
wildlife | (noun) all living things (except people) that are undomesticated | - |
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wildly | (adverb) to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree | - |
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(adverb) with violent and uncontrollable passion | - |
(adverb) in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner | - |
wildness | (noun) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature | - |
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(noun) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases | - |
(noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence |
(noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: abandon |